Are you fucking kidding me? We're doing a Slashdot version of AM radio weekend shows where old people call up and the host says "what's the weather like, where you are"? Fucking lame.
Anyway, it's not that big of a fucking deal. It has been between about 95-105 every day in Denver for the last two or three weeks (though it'll be cooler over this coming weekend). I keep the evaporative cooler dialed to '6' and when it gets a little warm, it kicks in. Keeps it at around a constant 70-75 degrees indoors for a whopping $20/mo. The only time it would become anything less than completely comfortable is if it happened to become very humid outside (doesn't happen much in the summer) or if the temperature reached about 115 degrees outside (also not likely to happen).eath
Small detail. Monday morning during commute hours noticed police car in the ambush at the unpowered intersection with major road/minor road scenario), checking for rollers. Really, police? Really?
Yeah, they always have their priorities right. Probably should have been going door-to-door checking on old people, who drop like flies when the heat's up.
This is nothing. I beat the heat by denying it because global warming is a hoax. The invisible and infallible hand of the free market will cure this problem just as it has with every other problem humanity has ever faced.
Indeed. If not for all those pollution restrictions of the past few decades it would be nice and cloudy outside.
This is with the rights granted to a citizen. Imagine what they will claim when corporations secure the rights of sovereign nations (http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/tpp-isnt-really-trade-agreement-its-i):
A recent leak of one of TPP’s most controversial chapters reveals that the pact would elevate individual corporations and investors to equal status with sovereign nations to privately enforce this treaty. U.S. negotiators are among the greatest champions of this “investor state” enforcement system. It would give any foreign firm incorporated in any TPP country new rights to skirt U.S. courts and laws, directly sue the U.S. government before foreign tribunals and demand compensation for financial, health, environmental, land use and other laws they claim undermine their TPP privileges.
"People with common sense are minority. They should rule. People without common sense, dumb people, idiots, hillbillies, their name is Legion, should not have ANY say. That's all there is to it."
Do you realize how many crimes in the past have been done for words such as these?
"They are unable to take care of ourselves, it is in their best interest if we provide them civilization and a roof over their heads" - Paraphrase of what most slave owners would say back in the day.
You are how oppresion begins.
And he probably thinks he's an outstanding proponent of American values.
A corporation (which is a subset of "company") is an artificial legal construct
And while we're on that topic, let's have a show of hands: How many of those who think the government should stay out of the economy, also object to the existence of corporations?
Whatever the Constitution may say, the US Supreme Court has effectively gutted any restrictions on the powers of the Federal Government through a series of decisions, the latest in this line being the decision on Obamacare.
What, precisely, the that decision change, with respect to restrictions on the powers of the Federal government?
Other nations gets to wash their hands while we do the dirty work, even when it's stuff they'd otherwise do. And when we don't, we're criticized for inaction.
Whose interest do you think the US military is serving?
Meanwhile, we send our kids to die
All volunteers, at present. Plus the mercenaries, which we prefer not to call mercenaries. Plus some non-citizens who are in the US armed forces as a path to citizenship.
and spend trillions of citizen dollars,
Yes, ordinary citizens pay for it. Rich people profit off of it.
This is one of the few things I agreed with Ron Paul on. To hell with the hypocrites. It's time we took a break. Every soldier comes home.
And Noam Chomsky...
Then, next time everyone starts crying about hostile nations, atrocities somewhere or epidemics of curable disease, we say, "We're done with the police role. Do it yourselves for a change."
We only do it when we think it's in certain people's best interest. (Where were the US armed forces during all the sub-Saharan genocides of the last few decades?)
I agree that we should slash military spending (or rather, roll it back slowly; a quick slash of the size we ought to perform would utterly wreck our economy). And that we should stay home and mind our own business, except in extreme cases, determined by noble principles. And that we should quit asking rank-and-file citizens to go kill and die for somebody's special interest.
Re-instituting the draft wouldn't be very popular, but it would force politicians to be more careful about which wars to fight. (Or at least there would be political consequences for bad choices.)
You're a company. The fact that any constitutional rights apply to you is because of dirty lawmaking. Kindly screw off. I *hope* you can only piss off the people so much before they realize "Hey, that's pretty dumb."
'Cause, you know, corporations are endowed by their creators with inalienable rights.
I'm not at all religious and strongly doubt god exists, but to deny the existence of one's own self-awareness and soul I think requires a very special kind of blindness.
Free will and self-awareness are unrelated concepts.
The soul is a myth.
I only said "hints". Perhaps I should have said provides a "tiny bit of evidence in that direction" (i.e. no where enough to be even slightly conclusive). Would that have helped?
Back to free will, let's see... Head injuries can change your personality. A magnetic field can change your ethical judgement. Chemicals can do all kinds of things to your thought and experience, good or bad. fMRI can detect decisions before the decider becomes aware of them. Etc.
When constructing a just legal system, it is also important for all parties to agree on whether or not the will is free of causality and reflects a person's intrinsic and unchangeable spirit, whether we should pretend that is the case even if we believe in determinism, or if determinism necessarily frees us all of ultimate responsibilty, at least to a degree that makes imprisonment and treatment the only ethical choices, and rules out capital and punitive measures.
Some commentators think recent advances in neuroscience are going to lead to a "my brain made me do it" legal defense.
FOSS games tend to be coded very well but they lack polished art and game assets. It's like building V8 engine and putting it in an ugly car. It runs great but scares people away.
That's why no one plays Dwarf Fortress and the Roguelike games.
I'd rather have an interesting game with amateur assets than a dull game with slick presentation.
I guess "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" are just empty words to you?
Are you aware that the original words were "life, liberty, and the pursuit of profit"?
Methinks the Founding Fathers felt a need to be less crass about what we stood for. Though maybe we should reinstate the original words, for the post-1980 era when greed is considered the highest civic virtue.
Strawman much?
Where the fuck do you get "greed is considered the highest civic virtue" from words about liberty, privacy, and preventing government appropriation of private property?
I don't get it from those words: I get it from watching how our society has worked for the past 32 years.
And you used the word "methinks". But the evidence says you don't.
This may be a stupid question, but isn't there a way to collect massive amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere, compress the carbon into some sort of solid composite, and store it somewhere where it's land-locked (similar to how trees store carbon in wood)?
If we would just start making our money out of carbon, rich people would hoard it and the problem would go away.
It's like that time in the 1990s when Bill Gates discovered the Internet several years later than everyone else...
But it's Bill Gates, so some people listen and think he's said something profound!
I suspect that when you've got as money as he has you end up surrounded by people who pretend everything you say is profound, whether that's what you want or not.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you fucking kidding me? We're doing a Slashdot version of AM radio weekend shows where old people call up and the host says "what's the weather like, where you are"? Fucking lame.
Anyway, it's not that big of a fucking deal. It has been between about 95-105 every day in Denver for the last two or three weeks (though it'll be cooler over this coming weekend). I keep the evaporative cooler dialed to '6' and when it gets a little warm, it kicks in. Keeps it at around a constant 70-75 degrees indoors for a whopping $20/mo. The only time it would become anything less than completely comfortable is if it happened to become very humid outside (doesn't happen much in the summer) or if the temperature reached about 115 degrees outside (also not likely to happen).eath
Thanks for calling in your report.
Small detail. Monday morning during commute hours noticed police car in the ambush at the unpowered intersection with major road/minor road scenario), checking for rollers. Really, police? Really?
Yeah, they always have their priorities right. Probably should have been going door-to-door checking on old people, who drop like flies when the heat's up.
This is nothing. I beat the heat by denying it because global warming is a hoax. The invisible and infallible hand of the free market will cure this problem just as it has with every other problem humanity has ever faced.
Indeed. If not for all those pollution restrictions of the past few decades it would be nice and cloudy outside.
This is with the rights granted to a citizen. Imagine what they will claim when corporations secure the rights of sovereign nations (http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/tpp-isnt-really-trade-agreement-its-i):
Yes, this whole thing is pretty scary.
The fact you got moded up at all is pretty scary.
"People with common sense are minority. They should rule. People without common sense, dumb people, idiots, hillbillies, their name is Legion, should not have ANY say. That's all there is to it."
Do you realize how many crimes in the past have been done for words such as these?
"They are unable to take care of ourselves, it is in their best interest if we provide them civilization and a roof over their heads" - Paraphrase of what most slave owners would say back in the day.
You are how oppresion begins.
And he probably thinks he's an outstanding proponent of American values.
A corporation (which is a subset of "company") is an artificial legal construct
And while we're on that topic, let's have a show of hands: How many of those who think the government should stay out of the economy, also object to the existence of corporations?
Whatever the Constitution may say, the US Supreme Court has effectively gutted any restrictions on the powers of the Federal Government through a series of decisions, the latest in this line being the decision on Obamacare.
What, precisely, the that decision change, with respect to restrictions on the powers of the Federal government?
The market should decide whether that business will be tolerated.
Yep, it says that right there in the Constitution.
Incorrect. Congress doesn't have the authority to regulate taco stands. Or any other business that never crosses a border.
You are wrong. If you think otherwise, open a taco stand and put up a big sign saying "We only serve white people".
But curiously, you *can* put up a big sign saying "We only serve pink hotdogs".
Playing World Police sucks
Other nations gets to wash their hands while we do the dirty work, even when it's stuff they'd otherwise do. And when we don't, we're criticized for inaction.
Whose interest do you think the US military is serving?
Meanwhile, we send our kids to die
All volunteers, at present. Plus the mercenaries, which we prefer not to call mercenaries. Plus some non-citizens who are in the US armed forces as a path to citizenship.
and spend trillions of citizen dollars,
Yes, ordinary citizens pay for it. Rich people profit off of it.
This is one of the few things I agreed with Ron Paul on. To hell with the hypocrites. It's time we took a break. Every soldier comes home.
And Noam Chomsky...
Then, next time everyone starts crying about hostile nations, atrocities somewhere or epidemics of curable disease, we say, "We're done with the police role. Do it yourselves for a change."
We only do it when we think it's in certain people's best interest. (Where were the US armed forces during all the sub-Saharan genocides of the last few decades?)
I agree that we should slash military spending (or rather, roll it back slowly; a quick slash of the size we ought to perform would utterly wreck our economy). And that we should stay home and mind our own business, except in extreme cases, determined by noble principles. And that we should quit asking rank-and-file citizens to go kill and die for somebody's special interest.
Re-instituting the draft wouldn't be very popular, but it would force politicians to be more careful about which wars to fight. (Or at least there would be political consequences for bad choices.)
""Corporations are people, my friend." - Thomas Jefferson"
Really? Can they vote? Get married?
Yes, but in most states they can only marry corporations of the opposite sex.
You're a company. The fact that any constitutional rights apply to you is because of dirty lawmaking. Kindly screw off. I *hope* you can only piss off the people so much before they realize "Hey, that's pretty dumb."
'Cause, you know, corporations are endowed by their creators with inalienable rights.
I'm not at all religious and strongly doubt god exists, but to deny the existence of one's own self-awareness and soul I think requires a very special kind of blindness.
Free will and self-awareness are unrelated concepts.
The soul is a myth.
I only said "hints". Perhaps I should have said provides a "tiny bit of evidence in that direction" (i.e. no where enough to be even slightly conclusive). Would that have helped?
Back to free will, let's see... Head injuries can change your personality. A magnetic field can change your ethical judgement. Chemicals can do all kinds of things to your thought and experience, good or bad. fMRI can detect decisions before the decider becomes aware of them. Etc.
When constructing a just legal system, it is also important for all parties to agree on whether or not the will is free of causality and reflects a person's intrinsic and unchangeable spirit, whether we should pretend that is the case even if we believe in determinism, or if determinism necessarily frees us all of ultimate responsibilty, at least to a degree that makes imprisonment and treatment the only ethical choices, and rules out capital and punitive measures.
Some commentators think recent advances in neuroscience are going to lead to a "my brain made me do it" legal defense.
'Free will' (read: your brain) is special and sits outside the sphere of the physical realm?
Besides the fact that according to recent advances in the cognitive sciences free will is increasingly overrated.
Maybe when they wrote "questions of free will" they were referring to things like "why does anyone still believe in it".
FOSS games tend to be coded very well but they lack polished art and game assets. It's like building V8 engine and putting it in an ugly car. It runs great but scares people away.
That's why no one plays Dwarf Fortress and the Roguelike games.
I'd rather have an interesting game with amateur assets than a dull game with slick presentation.
I'd keep that.
I guess "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" are just empty words to you?
Are you aware that the original words were "life, liberty, and the pursuit of profit"?
Methinks the Founding Fathers felt a need to be less crass about what we stood for. Though maybe we should reinstate the original words, for the post-1980 era when greed is considered the highest civic virtue.
Strawman much?
Where the fuck do you get "greed is considered the highest civic virtue" from words about liberty, privacy, and preventing government appropriation of private property?
I don't get it from those words: I get it from watching how our society has worked for the past 32 years.
And you used the word "methinks". But the evidence says you don't.
'Methinks' doesn't mean what you think it means.
Water is heavy. It will no longer be near the poles as it is fluid. It will be more centered around the equator.
And we'll rename it the aquator.
This may be a stupid question, but isn't there a way to collect massive amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere, compress the carbon into some sort of solid composite, and store it somewhere where it's land-locked (similar to how trees store carbon in wood)?
If we would just start making our money out of carbon, rich people would hoard it and the problem would go away.
Remember, we live in a capitalistic society so unless you can figure out a profitable fix, we're fucked.
FTFY
What if Jesus sent you scientists warning you what you were doing was bad?
Maybe global warming is His warning of what awaits us in the hereafter, if we believe in such irreligious nonsense as global warming.
Noah hates suck ups. Further more, he's sort of a dick
Yeah, he borrowed money to build his boat.
It's like that time in the 1990s when Bill Gates discovered the Internet several years later than everyone else...
But it's Bill Gates, so some people listen and think he's said something profound!
I suspect that when you've got as money as he has you end up surrounded by people who pretend everything you say is profound, whether that's what you want or not.
"suckup" seems to be in our genes.
The traditional PC won't go away as long as we have PC games.
Yeah, Company of Heroes 2 just won't be the same on a hand-held.